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Feyrouz (actress)
Perouz Artin Kalfayan ( ar, بيروز آرتين كالفيان, 15 March 1943 – 30 January 2016), better known as Feyrouz or Fayrouz, was an Egyptian film child actress. Kalfayan was born in Cairo, Egypt, on 15 March 1943, to an Armenian Egyptian family, her ancestors fled Ottoman persecution and settled in Egypt. Her sister, Nelly Kalfaian, also entered the entertainment industry. Her birth name, Perouz, was an Armenian name, likely a form of Feyrouz. She began her acting career very young, making her debut at the age of 7 in the 1950 film Yasmine. Egyptian director Anwar Wagdi was helpful to her in her career. She ultimately retired from acting at 15, in 1959, to wed comedian Badreddine Gamgoum ( ar, بدر الدين جمجوم). The couple had two children together, Iman and Ayman. Filmography * 1950: ''Yasmine'' (ياسمين) * 1951: ''Feyrouz Hanem'' (فيروز هانم) * 1952: ''Al Hirman'' (الحرمان) * 1952: ''Sourat az Zafaf'' (صورة الزفاف) * ...
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Cairo
Cairo ( ; ar, القاهرة, al-Qāhirah, ) is the capital of Egypt and its largest city, home to 10 million people. It is also part of the largest urban agglomeration in Africa, the Arab world and the Middle East: The Greater Cairo metropolitan area, with a population of 21.9 million, is the 12th-largest in the world by population. Cairo is associated with ancient Egypt, as the Giza pyramid complex and the ancient cities of Memphis and Heliopolis are located in its geographical area. Located near the Nile Delta, the city first developed as Fustat, a settlement founded after the Muslim conquest of Egypt in 640 next to an existing ancient Roman fortress, Babylon. Under the Fatimid dynasty a new city, ''al-Qāhirah'', was founded nearby in 969. It later superseded Fustat as the main urban centre during the Ayyubid and Mamluk periods (12th–16th centuries). Cairo has long been a centre of the region's political and cultural life, and is titled "the city of a thousand m ...
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Child Actor
The term child actor or child actress is generally applied to a child acting on stage or in film, movies or television. An adult who began their acting career as a child may also be called a child actor, or a "former child actor". Closely associated terms include teenage actor or teen actor, an actor who reached popularity as a Adolescence, teenager. Famous earlier examples include Elizabeth Taylor, who started as a child star in the early 1940s in productions like ''National Velvet (film), National Velvet'' before becoming a popular film star as an adult in movies. Many child actors find themselves struggling to adapt as they become adults, mainly due to typecasting. Macaulay Culkin and Lindsay Lohan are two particular famous child actors who eventually experienced much difficulty with the fame they acquired at a young age. Some child actors do go on to have successful acting careers as adults; notable actors who first gained fame as children include Mickey Rooney, Kurt Russell ...
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Cairo, Egypt
Cairo ( ; ar, القاهرة, al-Qāhirah, ) is the capital of Egypt and its largest city, home to 10 million people. It is also part of the largest urban agglomeration in Africa, the Arab world and the Middle East: The Greater Cairo metropolitan area, with a population of 21.9 million, is the 12th-largest in the world by population. Cairo is associated with ancient Egypt, as the Giza pyramid complex and the ancient cities of Memphis and Heliopolis are located in its geographical area. Located near the Nile Delta, the city first developed as Fustat, a settlement founded after the Muslim conquest of Egypt in 640 next to an existing ancient Roman fortress, Babylon. Under the Fatimid dynasty a new city, ''al-Qāhirah'', was founded nearby in 969. It later superseded Fustat as the main urban centre during the Ayyubid and Mamluk periods (12th–16th centuries). Cairo has long been a centre of the region's political and cultural life, and is titled "the city of a thousand ...
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Armenian Egyptian
Armenians in Egypt are a community with a long history. They are a minority with their own language, churches, and social institutions. The number of Armenians in Egypt has decreased due to migrations to other countries and integration into the rest of Egyptian society, including extensive intermarriage with Muslims and Christians. Today they number about 6000, much smaller than a few generations ago. They are concentrated in Cairo and Alexandria, the two largest cities. Economically the Egyptian Armenians have tended to be self-employed businessmen or craftsmen and to have more years of education than the Egyptian average.Ayman Zohry"Armenians in Egypt" International Union for the Scientific Study of Population: ''XXV International Population Conference'', year 2005. History Armenians in Egypt have had a presence since the 6th and 7th centuries. The early Armenian migrants to Egypt were Muslims. A migration of Armenian Christians to Egypt started in the early 19th century, and ...
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Nelly Kalfaian
Nelly Artin Kalfayan ( ar, نيلّي آرتين كالفيان, born 3 January 1949 in Cairo, Egypt), better known by only her mononym Nelly, is an Egyptian actress, singer, comedian, dancer, television personality, and all-around entertainer. Family background Nelly was born and 1949 to an Egyptian family of Armenian roots. The school she attended as a child was run by and for people of Armenian descent in Cairo. She is the younger sister of Feyrouz, a well-known child actress, and a cousin of Lubluba, another well-known Egyptian-Armenian film actress who is a little older than she is. Nelly was married to the Egyptian film director Houssam El-Din Mustafa, and later on she married musician Moody Elemam for a very short time. She later married Khaled Barakat (Egyptian businessman) and moved to London, then later divorced and married Adel Hossny, another Egyptian businessman working in the Tourism industry. Career Her father was a film director. and she started her career as a ...
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Feyrouz
Feyrouz ( ar, فيروز) is an Arabic given name for females and males. Variants of the name include Fayrouz ,'' Fyrooz'' and Fairuz. Notable people with the name include: *Fayrouz Aboelkheir (born 2006), Egyptian squash player *Fayrouz Saad, American politician Feyrouz may also refer to: * Fairuz (born 1935), Lebanese singer spouse of Assi Rahbani * Fayrouz Al Halabiya (Rachel Samocha), Jewish-Syrian singer *Feyrouz (actress) Perouz Artin Kalfayan ( ar, بيروز آرتين كالفيان, 15 March 1943 – 30 January 2016), better known as Feyrouz or Fayrouz, was an Egyptian film child actress. Kalfayan was born in Cairo, Egypt, on 15 March 1943, to an Armenian ... (1943–2016), Egyptian actress of Armenian origin {{given name Arabic feminine given names ...
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Anwar Wagdi
Anwar Wagdi or Wagdy ( ar, أنور وجدي, ; 11 October 1904 – 14 May 1955), born Anwar Wagdi Yehia El Fattal, was an Egyptian actor, screenwriter, director and producer. Life Anwar was born in the Cairo district of El Daher, Cairo. His father was of Syrian descent. Anwar's Egyptian mother, Muhiba El-Rikaby, was from Cairo. Anwar Wagdy was married to Egyptian actresses Elham Hussein, Leila Mourad (three times), and Laila Fawzi. He died at 50 in Sweden while seeking treatment for polycystic kidney disease. Career Anwar Wagdy began his acting career as an extra in 1922 in the Youssef Wahbi Theatre Company's production of Julius Caesar. He quickly leaped to stardom and played leading roles in and/or directed 92 Egyptian films between the 1932 and 1955. He achieved particular success partnering with his wife, Egyptian legend Leila Mourad. Youssef Wahbi directed his first film: "Defense" in 1934 and called "Anwar Wagdy" to take part in this film with him. After the failure ...
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Dahab (film)
''Dahab'' ( ar, دهب) is a 1953 Egyptian Comedy musical film directed by Anwar Wagdy, starring the 10-year-old wunderkind Fayrouz alongside Wagdy in one of the most important films of her career. Cast * Anwar Wagdy as Wahid Alfonso * Fayrouz as Dahab * Magda as adult Dahab * Ismail Yassine as Farah, the theatre owner * Zeinat Sedki as Baltia * Seraj Munir as Mounir El Dinary, Dahab's father * Mimi Shoukeib as Mounir El Dinary's wife See also * Cinema of Egypt * Lists of Egyptian films * List of Egyptian films of the 1950s * List of Egyptian films of 1953 A list of films produced in Egypt in 1953. For an A-Z list of films currently on Wikipedia, see :Egyptian films. External links Egyptian films of 1953at the Internet Movie Database IMDb (an abbreviation of Internet Movie Database) is ... References External links * Dahab on elCinema.com 1950s Arabic-language films 1953 films 1953 musical comedy films Egyptian musical comedy films Egyptian black-an ...
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Actresses From Cairo
An actor or actress is a person who portrays a character in a performance. The actor performs "in the flesh" in the traditional medium of the theatre or in modern media such as film, radio, and television. The analogous Greek term is (), literally "one who answers".''Hypokrites'' (related to our word for hypocrite) also means, less often, "to answer" the tragic chorus. See Weimann (1978, 2); see also Csapo and Slater, who offer translations of classical source material using the term ''hypocrisis'' (acting) (1994, 257, 265–267). The actor's interpretation of a rolethe art of actingpertains to the role played, whether based on a real person or fictional character. This can also be considered an "actor's role," which was called this due to scrolls being used in the theaters. Interpretation occurs even when the actor is "playing themselves", as in some forms of experimental performance art. Formerly, in ancient Greece and the medieval world, and in England at the time of Willi ...
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Egyptian Christians
Christianity is the second largest religion in Egypt. The history of Egyptian Christianity dates to the Roman era as Alexandria was an early center of Christianity. Demographics The vast majority of Egyptian Christians are Copts who belong to the Coptic Orthodox Church of Alexandria, an Oriental Orthodox Church. As of 2019, Copts in Egypt "are generally understood to make up approximately 10 percent" of the nation's population,Michael Wahid HannaExcluded and Unequal: Copts on the Margins of the Egyptian Security State The Century Foundation (May 9, 2019). with an estimated population of 9.5 million (figure cited in the ''Wall Street Journal'', 2017)Francis X. Rocca & Dahlia KholaifPope Francis Calls on Egypt's Catholics to Embrace Forgiveness ''Wall Street Journal'' (April 29, 2017). or 10 million (figure cited in the Associated Press, 2019).Noha ElhennawyEgyptian woman fights unequal Islamic inheritance laws Associated Press (November 15, 2019). Smaller or larger figures have ...
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Egyptian People Of Armenian Descent
Egyptian describes something of, from, or related to Egypt. Egyptian or Egyptians may refer to: Nations and ethnic groups * Egyptians, a national group in North Africa ** Egyptian culture, a complex and stable culture with thousands of years of recorded history ** Egyptian cuisine, the local culinary traditions of Egypt * Egypt, the modern country in northeastern Africa ** Egyptian Arabic, the language spoken in contemporary Egypt ** A citizen of Egypt; see Demographics of Egypt * Ancient Egypt, a civilization from c. 3200 BC to 343 BC ** Ancient Egyptians, ethnic people of ancient Egypt ** Ancient Egyptian architecture, the architectural structure style ** Ancient Egyptian cuisine, the cuisine of ancient Egypt ** Egyptian language, the oldest known language of Egypt and a branch of the Afroasiatic language family * Copts, the ethnic Egyptian Christian minority ** Coptic language or Coptic Egyptian, the latest stage of the Egyptian language, spoken in Egypt until the 17th ce ...
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